The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.
The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.
There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.
Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.
I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.
There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.
I was an adult before I began to learn that there is a difference between a conversation and an argument.
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.
Listen carefully to me. Despite popular belief to the contrary, there is absolutely no power in intention. . . There is no difference in the person who intends to do things differently and the one who never thinks about it in the first place. Have you ever considered how often we judge ourselves by out intentions while we judge others by their actions? Yet intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
The children of God have more in common then they have differences.
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking through difference. We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multiple truths cannot coexist.
